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Not undated boilerplate: the FBI/DOJ 2015 review is source-linked to the record, so the citation is one you can verify before you file. 26 of 28 FBI examiners provided erroneous testimony or reports; the review identified nearly 3,000 cases for examination (over 500 reviewed as of April 2015).
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Defendants in at least 35 of the identified cases received the death penalty; errors appeared in 33 (94%) of those.
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Mitochondrial DNA on hair has been routine at the FBI since 2000, refusal to mtDNA-test is itself a cross-exam line.
The controlling authority this template is built on.
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- Lead controlling authorityVerbatim quote
“Out of the 268 cases where examiners provided testimony used to inculpate a defendant at trial, erroneous statements were made in 257 of them — or 96 percent of the cases.”
- Supporting authoritySummary of source, not a verbatim quote
The NAS report concluded there are no scientifically accepted statistics on how often particular hair characteristics occur in the population, and no uniform standard for how many features must agree before an examiner may declare a microscopic hair 'match.'
- Supporting authoritySummary of source, not a verbatim quote
Santae Tribble was convicted of a Washington, D.C. murder in 1980 based in part on FBI microscopic-hair testimony, and served about 28 years across two periods of incarceration. In 2012, mitochondrial-DNA testing excluded him as the source of the hair evidence used to convict him, and the D.C. Superior Court vacated his conviction.
- Supporting authorityVerbatim quote
“Donald Eugene Gates was freed from prison and his conviction was vacated last week when a D.C. Superior Court judge acted at the prosecutor's request and acknowledged Gates was wrongfully imprisoned for 27 years. DNA testing and other evidence showed that Gates was innocent.”
- Supporting authorityVerbatim quote
“Defendants in at least 35 of these cases received the death penalty and errors were identified in 33 (94%) of those cases.”
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